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I'm a guy who's relatively new to the hacking scene in most respects except playing them. Any hack I've been a part of has gone unfinished and with it, my confidence in completion has dropped over time.

However, I want to try my hand at creating a Project of a world known as Glowing Sunset.

Glowing Sunset is apart of a combination of a story being told in the Zetsuna region. The plan was to create a fanfiction (and eventually, a comic) alongside a hack and have them go hand in hand in some respects. The hack project I want to work on, Glowing Sunset, will be loosely based on key aspects of the fanfiction. I wanted this to be my ultimate storytelling in the Pokemon world.

Now, at first, I thought I would try to tackle the project on my own. I figured that if I edited a few sprites here and there, made one city/town at a time and did a little scripting, I would finish the hack as soon as I finished the fanfiction. That was stupid of me. I soon learned that there's a lot I don't know about hacking. There's a lot that it would take and I would have to study more than a few months worth of knowledge.

So, I ask of the hacking community to help me. Help a foolish dudebot create an experience worth noticing.

The Story of Glowing Sunset

This is the story of a child who was reluctant to accept their destiny . . .

A young woman with a gambling problem in Fortuna City found her addiction to require funding. Because of that, she took out a loan with a shady organization. Soon after, she became a young mother. In debt and fearing for the life of her newborn child, she fled Fortuna City and lived quietly in the obscure area known as Nomnom Town.

During this same time, the world became distorted. The atmosphere shifted and many Pokemon became uneasy.

15 years later . . . Two organizations have come to develop over the years.

A criminal organization named the Mob Squad flourishes and grabs a stronghold on the underworld, doing unimaginable and fiendish things.

An activist organization named the Green Team preach that Global Warming is approaching the planet and take it upon themselves to solve the problem that no one believes to exist.

You are a young teen, depressed by your close friend Faust abandoning you and Melancholy to start his Pokemon journey two years ago. Since then, you spend most of your time holed up in your room on the internet. However, one day, your mom tells you about a favor that Prof. Nemo wants . . .

[Full story upon acceptance into the team]

Warning:

This project is going to tackle some mature themes. Nothing over the top, but it definitely will NOT be as innocent as the summary will lead you to believe. I'm a proponent of storytelling and one rule is to follow the flow of the story. For example, if you include a mob in a story, they have to do mob-like things. I would never change the functions of the mob for child-friendly storytelling.

I have minor skill in most departments of Pokemon hacking. OW Maps, Spriting, Basic Scripting, Basic Tiling, Music Hacking to a degree, Low-level mapping and, on a good day, titlescreen design.

However, I consider myself an expert storyteller. No matter how good I get at anything else, the biggest strength that I will ever give to this project will be the story. That I promise.

WANTED:

Nothing wanted at the moment, but I will still actively hire extra hands with good enough proof.Application Form

Quote:

Applying for: (The position that you want)
Skill level: (Personal opinion of how good you are.)
Allotted Time: (How much time can you dedicate to this project a week?)
Proof of Work: (Doesn't need to be too fancy. Just proof that you can do what you say you can do. Requirement priority based on position.)
Contact Info: (Give me a way to reach you.)
Anything else?: (This is a space for anything extra that you want to tell me or notify me about.)

Applying for: Mapper/beta tester
Skill level: I'd say decent. I wouldnt call myself the best.
Allotted Time: I'm a 16 year old on summer vacation... I say at least, 20 hours a week.
Proof of Work: Well, ive only done mapping on my own hacks that ive attempted and deemed too hard, and im more of an OW mapper. So i could get screen shots if needed.
Contact Info: skype: brandon.peters88 email: [email protected]
Anything else?: If given time afterwards, i would like to open the project of my hack i have in mind to this. Called Pokemon Cyborgs.

Applying for: Scripter
Skill level: On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say a 6
Allotted Time: This summer I should be able to work on the project for 7 hours each week. (The time I give you mainly relies upon the work you give me. When I submit my work, I am done until you give me more.)
Proof of Work:

Contact Info: PM, Skype, if you want anything else, just ask me if I have it.
Anything else?: If there is a day where I can't work, I will try to notify you... If you need any more proof of work, just ask for it...

1: I'm actually thinking about changing it to a Fire Red hack. However, I originally started off with it being a Ruby hack. Haven't changed that yet.
2: Well, I was trying to keep the "Sunset" aspect, but I'm not against changing it. What did you have in mind?

Also, you're accepted. I do actually need a co-writer and scripter especially. Tell me more about Pokemon Solar and Eclipse. I'll PM you.

Quote originally posted by CrOw16:

Applying for: Mapper/beta tester
Skill level: I'd say decent. I wouldnt call myself the best.
Allotted Time: I'm a 16 year old on summer vacation... I say at least, 20 hours a week.
Proof of Work: Well, ive only done mapping on my own hacks that ive attempted and deemed too hard, and im more of an OW mapper. So i could get screen shots if needed.
Contact Info: skype: brandon.peters88 email: [email protected]
Anything else?: If given time afterwards, i would like to open the project of my hack i have in mind to this. Called Pokemon Cyborgs.

I'd like to see your mapping really quick before I accept, so I'll ask for a screenshot. It's not an issue with trust or anything, I just have this image I'm going for.

Also, if you're asking for help on your project release, I'd be happy to help where possible.

Quote originally posted by Patrick Symus:

Applying for: Scripter
Skill level: On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say a 6
Allotted Time: This summer I should be able to work on the project for 7 hours each week. (The time I give you mainly relies upon the work you give me. When I submit my work, I am done until you give me more.)
Proof of Work:

Contact Info: PM, Skype, if you want anything else, just ask me if I have it.
Anything else?: If there is a day where I can't work, I will try to notify you... If you need any more proof of work, just ask for it...

-When the project starts, we'll likely be working through retroshare. If anybody has a solution they think to be better, let me know.
-The base for the game is currently Ruby. Possibly going to change to Fire Red.
-The project will begin picking up steam as soon as I have a mapper, scripter and tiler.

(These were made for a RPG Minecraft Server (Flopped))
From the beginning of recorded history there has always been 3 cities, Rugmond, Terro, and Seren. Each city is known for different things. Rugmond, the city of oppression, from its very beginning only Humans were allowed into the city without constant harassment. Elves, Dwarves, no matter what you were i didn't matter... you were run out of town. The city white and clean, would not be destroyed by the slobs of the other races, at least what the people of t he city believed. King Salvian III, not much different than his predecessor, an abuser and doesn't show his face. Constantly under a shroud, made of thick silk, as black as night to protect his face, so he may walk the city without the peasants noticing him.
Terro, a city so amazing with such diverse humanoids walking among it, the ideas and inventions so great, the people from Rugmond refuse to believe that they are so closed minded. But the city is full of crime because of its excessive size, it was bound to happen with its large population. The Elder Council runs the city, made up of 10 elders who understand that Divine Right isn't the way to run a city. But excluding the occasional robbery and assaults the city is like a paradise for any being.
Seren, the city of Corruption. Once a glorious city with amazing architecture after many back door deals, with poor leadership, the beings of the city rebelled and threw the government, now a dictatorship. The leader, Faro, kills anyone on sight who is caught trying to leave the city without express orders from himself. Even under these circumstances many beings will just make a dead run for it. The cities demise was clearly seen by the other cities, but the dictator still sends small parties to attack the cities, hit and run tactics.
Small villages can be found all through out the land, with people who don't like any of the leadership that the cities provide. Some small and some quite large, full of all different races and breeds.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fables are told by beings around the world, that the four elements created the world as a way to leave their legacy, but the humans were just interested about their race, and nothing else... Destroying the landscape, which can be seen in the town of Seren. Some say that the elements still watch over the land they created, they die a little everyday the wars between the cities continue. Continents made for living in an environment the would give as long as you gave back, but the humans... only in it for their own personal gain. The arches of Varon, named after the Greatest warrior who was buried on the high hills, are so large that the sheer beauty of the landscape can cleanse a soul.
Each element thought to claim an area for ones self: Air, the high mountains is where he stays to keep away from the people. The followers of air, mostly nomads, stay near the extreme mountains to stay at one with their leader.
Water: The Swamps, what they are known as, is where Water can be a peace as he keeps his silence under the water where the noise of the world is blocked off.
Earth: The plains of Cole, deep under the ground he hides until the people leave the area. Also taken a vow of silence until the land cleanses of the dirt and pollution the people continue to leave, even after all the disasters that earth continues to cause.
Fire: Deep in the Volcano, under all the magma he lays, and shows his face in the city of Seren, who is so sick of all people destroying what him and his brethren worked so hard to create, and powers Faro, to kill every being. Tricking the dictator into believing that it is his sole duty to kill the population.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Since the beginning of human existence there has always been feuding and fighting. With worship it was to only gets worse, the elements didn't even want to be worshiped. They wanted to watch existence happen, and just be left out of it. The humans called themselves the Air or Water or Earth or Fire Warriors or Knights, it all depended on the culture.
The start of all the hating was when an Army of Water Knights invaded a small camp of fire knights. It was more like two knights and six or seven merchants. The Kingdom of Seren, before it was in its modern shape, who's King was part of the Order of Fire Knights. Enraged at the water society he launched a full on attack towards the swamps, the leaders of the swamps didn't see anything, expect rape and pillage. The Army of Water halted and waited to flank from it position, the Army of Fire, wasn't left with one man standing. Seren was sent into a state of turmoil, the king was hanged and a new leader was put in charge.
The whole time The Elements watched this happen, scared to make contact because of the idea of Divine Right, they stayed back and let it happen. But as the feuding continued Fire and Water both chose one being to try to stop the battles through mystical forces. The mystical powers took over all thought to the beings and they claimed to be the divine leaders of the corresponding armies. No one would challenge them, they were given to much power. Air and Earth appointed a leader and gave them mystical powers, for safety reasons against Fire and Water's armies.
The defenses of the other Elemental armies insulted The Army of Water and they sent full on assaults at Earth and Airs Armies, this would continue for eight years, until each Element Killed the Armies Generals, by suspending the generals in air and letting them starve to death. This stopped all war between the Armies, the beings to scarred that the suspension would happen to themselves public worship was stopped.
The elements realized how weak the beings that they made were. Hundreds of years passed before any elemental contact would be made again.

Contact Info: Skype: s0nzoffear
Anything else?: The second character in my Skype is a ZERO (ALOT of people get that wrong)
Also: I'd Prefer to lead all the Stories on the Lengendaries but that's on you, also I work well with other people.

(These were made for a RPG Minecraft Server (Flopped))
From the beginning of recorded history there has always been 3 cities, Rugmond, Terro, and Seren. Each city is known for different things. Rugmond, the city of oppression, from its very beginning only Humans were allowed into the city without constant harassment. Elves, Dwarves, no matter what you were i didn't matter... you were run out of town. The city white and clean, would not be destroyed by the slobs of the other races, at least what the people of t he city believed. King Salvian III, not much different than his predecessor, an abuser and doesn't show his face. Constantly under a shroud, made of thick silk, as black as night to protect his face, so he may walk the city without the peasants noticing him.
Terro, a city so amazing with such diverse humanoids walking among it, the ideas and inventions so great, the people from Rugmond refuse to believe that they are so closed minded. But the city is full of crime because of its excessive size, it was bound to happen with its large population. The Elder Council runs the city, made up of 10 elders who understand that Divine Right isn't the way to run a city. But excluding the occasional robbery and assaults the city is like a paradise for any being.
Seren, the city of Corruption. Once a glorious city with amazing architecture after many back door deals, with poor leadership, the beings of the city rebelled and threw the government, now a dictatorship. The leader, Faro, kills anyone on sight who is caught trying to leave the city without express orders from himself. Even under these circumstances many beings will just make a dead run for it. The cities demise was clearly seen by the other cities, but the dictator still sends small parties to attack the cities, hit and run tactics.
Small villages can be found all through out the land, with people who don't like any of the leadership that the cities provide. Some small and some quite large, full of all different races and breeds.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fables are told by beings around the world, that the four elements created the world as a way to leave their legacy, but the humans were just interested about their race, and nothing else... Destroying the landscape, which can be seen in the town of Seren. Some say that the elements still watch over the land they created, they die a little everyday the wars between the cities continue. Continents made for living in an environment the would give as long as you gave back, but the humans... only in it for their own personal gain. The arches of Varon, named after the Greatest warrior who was buried on the high hills, are so large that the sheer beauty of the landscape can cleanse a soul.
Each element thought to claim an area for ones self: Air, the high mountains is where he stays to keep away from the people. The followers of air, mostly nomads, stay near the extreme mountains to stay at one with their leader.
Water: The Swamps, what they are known as, is where Water can be a peace as he keeps his silence under the water where the noise of the world is blocked off.
Earth: The plains of Cole, deep under the ground he hides until the people leave the area. Also taken a vow of silence until the land cleanses of the dirt and pollution the people continue to leave, even after all the disasters that earth continues to cause.
Fire: Deep in the Volcano, under all the magma he lays, and shows his face in the city of Seren, who is so sick of all people destroying what him and his brethren worked so hard to create, and powers Faro, to kill every being. Tricking the dictator into believing that it is his sole duty to kill the population.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Since the beginning of human existence there has always been feuding and fighting. With worship it was to only gets worse, the elements didn't even want to be worshiped. They wanted to watch existence happen, and just be left out of it. The humans called themselves the Air or Water or Earth or Fire Warriors or Knights, it all depended on the culture.
The start of all the hating was when an Army of Water Knights invaded a small camp of fire knights. It was more like two knights and six or seven merchants. The Kingdom of Seren, before it was in its modern shape, who's King was part of the Order of Fire Knights. Enraged at the water society he launched a full on attack towards the swamps, the leaders of the swamps didn't see anything, expect rape and pillage. The Army of Water halted and waited to flank from it position, the Army of Fire, wasn't left with one man standing. Seren was sent into a state of turmoil, the king was hanged and a new leader was put in charge.
The whole time The Elements watched this happen, scared to make contact because of the idea of Divine Right, they stayed back and let it happen. But as the feuding continued Fire and Water both chose one being to try to stop the battles through mystical forces. The mystical powers took over all thought to the beings and they claimed to be the divine leaders of the corresponding armies. No one would challenge them, they were given to much power. Air and Earth appointed a leader and gave them mystical powers, for safety reasons against Fire and Water's armies.
The defenses of the other Elemental armies insulted The Army of Water and they sent full on assaults at Earth and Airs Armies, this would continue for eight years, until each Element Killed the Armies Generals, by suspending the generals in air and letting them starve to death. This stopped all war between the Armies, the beings to scarred that the suspension would happen to themselves public worship was stopped.
The elements realized how weak the beings that they made were. Hundreds of years passed before any elemental contact would be made again.

Contact Info: Skype: s0nzoffear
Anything else?: The second character in my Skype is a ZERO (ALOT of people get that wrong)
Also: I'd Prefer to lead all the Stories on the Lengendaries but that's on you, also I work well with other people.

-When the project starts, we'll likely be working through retroshare. If anybody has a solution they think to be better, let me know.
-The base for the game is currently Ruby. Possibly going to change to Fire Red.
-The project will begin picking up steam as soon as I have a mapper, scripter and tiler.

In the meantime, I'll survey everyone and PM you all everyone's Skype name and place them in the Dropbox when I collect them all.
--------ORDER OF EVENTS:

So that we don't find ourselves in a clusterbomb mess of a project, I'll list the order of things I want to work on. Any objections will be taken into consideration.

-Story [Before we even start working towards the actual ROM, I want to make sure that the story is tight. I don't want to do too much rewriting during the course of another event, so I'll be going through the story with all the storyline writers before moving on to the next part.]

-Mapping [After the story pans out, we should be able to start mapping within days of it, if not hours. It's a definite that we will come back to it, so I'm only looking to start with mapping out the cities and the paths to those cities. Once that's finished, we'll move on to the next part and come back to map out events that aren't crucial to the main story such as hidden areas and the paths to legendaries.]

-Spriting [Naturally, I want to insert the necessary sprites after the map's been set out.]

-Scripting [I think this one's a no-brainer for us all. Hopefully, with everything else laid out, we should be able to ease any hold-ups in the scripting department.]

Now, obviously, I'm not going have people map, sprite or script the entire region in one go.

The way it works is simple enough. Once the first two Gym cities are finished being mapped, we'll get to sprite-inserting where we can. Once the first two Gym cities are sprite-filled, then we should be able to get the scripting team going. If we can keep everything running smooth in that fashion or something similar to it, we'll use the time as efficiently as possible.
--------TEAMS:

So far, everyone's mutual line of communication has been through me. That'll change as soon as I set the general line of communication (hopefully by the end of the day). Until then, I ask that you be patient with me on this.

As an alternative, everyone working on the project is listed in the first post. If you can, I ask that you all try to get acquainted and make working together a bit simpler.

After I can outline our jobs properly, I'll likely take a backseat in some departments and act only as a consultant.

If any positions for this are still open.
Applying for: Beta-tester
Skill level: Probably a never tried but from playing other hacks, I've learnt to explore everything I can.
Allotted Time: 3 hours when I have sports, 6 on a school day, and all day on a Saturday.
Proof of Work: Sorry, but I honestly have no clue how I can give proof on this position.
Contact Info: Skype: Essendonmiracles06, or PM me here
Anything else?: This would be my first beta-testing positing.

If any positions for this are still open.
Applying for: Beta-tester
Skill level: Probably a never tried but from playing other hacks, I've learnt to explore everything I can.
Allotted Time: 3 hours when I have sports, 6 on a school day, and all day on a Saturday.
Proof of Work: Sorry, but I honestly have no clue how I can give proof on this position.
Contact Info: Skype: Essendonmiracles06, or PM me here
Anything else?: This would be my first beta-testing positing.

Hey there! Is it a fire red hack?
I can Change the start up screen(NOT TITLE SCREEN) and Gamefreak logo
and If you are sticking to Reds Story I'll send you a patch for Trainer sprites that will change all trainers to DS ones.

Applying for: Mapper
Skill level: OK, not bad but not great either.
Allotted Time: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 4pm-11pm. Tuesdays and Thursday 8pm-11pm.
Proof of Work: I would have to send this over a PM since I cannot post URLs yet.
Contact Info: My name on Skype is richardnara. Or you can PM me
Anything else?: I hope this hack turns out well

Applying for: Mapper
Skill level: OK, not bad but not great either.
Allotted Time: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 4pm-11pm. Tuesdays and Thursday 8pm-11pm.
Proof of Work: I would have to send this over a PM since I cannot post URLs yet.
Contact Info: My name on Skype is richardnara. Or you can PM me
Anything else?: I hope this hack turns out well

Hey there! Is it a fire red hack?
I can Change the start up screen(NOT TITLE SCREEN) and Gamefreak logo
and If you are sticking to Reds Story I'll send you a patch for Trainer sprites that will change all trainers to DS ones.

I don't know if we need to change the start-up screen yet, but thanks for the offer.

--------

Notifications:

-The mapper positions are filled.
-The tileset professional position is filled.
-General line of communication is Skype.
-extremeromhacker has yet to respond. If he doesn't within five days, he will be wiped from the team.

Applying for: Scripter (or music hacker. if you give me the midi or .s file I can insert it. still learning that though)
Skill level: Middle (I can't do movement scripts right now. I just need to learn that)
Allotted Time: Depends. Probably 10- 20 hours a week I can dedicate to this.
Proof of Work: I can make a lot of scripts. (give items, random events, money, sounds, and others) Here is one example. If you want more just ask .

Applying for: Scripter (or music hacker. if you give me the midi or .s file I can insert it. still learning that though)
Skill level: Middle (I can't do movement scripts right now. I just need to learn that)
Allotted Time: Depends. Probably 10- 20 hours a week I can dedicate to this.
Proof of Work: I can make a lot of scripts. (give items, random events, money, sounds, and others) Here is one example. If you want more just ask .

Hey everyone we are still recruiting for Spriters, so if you have some skill, please send in an application! At the moment we are a very tight group who are making big strides to make this ROM Hack one of the best!

Applying for: Music Hacker
Skill level: 7.5/10 (I can insert muisc, not make music)
Allotted Time: A day or two a week. Roughly a few hours is all I need for inserting music and testing and what not.
Proof of Work: (

Contact Info: VM/PM or Skype: varion.bluefire
Anything else?: For me to insert music, you need to have a pretty good diea of what music you'd like. Since I don't do OC's it would have to be music from other games. So for example, Cherrygrove City from GSC into FR format.

Applying for: Music Hacker
Skill level: 7.5/10 (I can insert muisc, not make music)
Allotted Time: A day or two a week. Roughly a few hours is all I need for inserting music and testing and what not.
Proof of Work: (

Contact Info: VM/PM or Skype: varion.bluefire
Anything else?: For me to insert music, you need to have a pretty good diea of what music you'd like. Since I don't do OC's it would have to be music from other games. So for example, Cherrygrove City from GSC into FR format.

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